Standing up for Singapore

So, I finished Twilight from cover to cover, watched GI Joe, the NDP Parade, and 300. In that order. Just sounds so much to do for one day.
Twilight
You know people sometimes tell you that when they picked up this book, they couldn’t put it down? And, if they have any sense, they tell you that that was because it was so good or summat? I can tell you that I couldn’t put the book down either. Because I was trying hard to find out exactly which was the part that was so freaking good. I wish Edward could have just let her be a vamp. I mean, making her do it during childbirth…
Makes me want to read Breaking Dawn. I wanna see how many bones she broke.
GI Joe
Nothing much to say about this. Snake Eyes is awesome. Imagine flying steel and moving steel combined. Just that there were lots of cool shit that I wish I can carry to school and fire at random people. Nanomites can’t compare against those.
You know, crashing our Viewing Wheel or Sky Tower ain’t sound like a bad idea though…
Did I mention that Snake Eyes is awesome?
NDP Parade
This was…better than I expected. There were changes to the pre-parade segments…but the marchpast unavoidable. So sad. I was just sitting there and thinking how dumb the “terrorists” were to be driving such a pathetically small boat against our Marines. And the SWAT team looked pretty dumb just half-crouching across the stage.
BTW, the skit about SNU coming to Temasek was just dumb. Mark was just wisecracking and being rude to Utama all the way…
That said, the new version of Stand Up for Singapore was much cooler. Maybe it was because they were using a more modern song for our National Day theme song.
300
This was great. Totally. Maybe because it’s just the bloodthirsty (or gay?) side of me showing…
Basically, all the guy actors were parading about showing more than 60% of their skin. So hot.
Leonidas was…so stubborn. I think he derives fun from pushing random people into pits. Of course, his army is just as stubborn, so they trot off to fight the Persians who outnumber them about 10000 to 3. Great odds, huh?
But this stubborn guy Leonidas, he got great plans, and he wants to lead the huge numbers of Persians to where their huge numbers can’t number. They stack stone walls at the Hot Gates, a narrow pathway that makes sure that the Persians can’t outflank them.
Ok, I say stone, but the Spartans got this cool new cement provided by Stupid Persian Emissaries Pte. Ltd. The Persians envoys are…pissed off. Surprising.
But…if they’re pissed off, nothing is going to match Xerxes’s rage. Especially when the 300 Spartans crush his troops and slay them like sheep. For two days consecutively.
What do the Spartans do with all the bodies? They make a brand new wall!
Day 2
Xerxes: Your troops are…the bravest of the brave. So are your people. We have lots to share in culture.
Leonidas: I believe that’s what our armies have been doing all morning…
Xerxes sends (in this order) his calvary, Immortal elites, a troll, a rhino and elephant troops. And they all, well…get screwed. I liked the part when the rhino charged at them, one Spartan released a spear, and the rhino…just collapsed.
Unfortunately, Leonidas doesn’t follow his own rules, and doesn’t treat this hunchbacked guy with the proper respect. So the hunchback tells Xerxes of this route to surround the Spartans. In the end, the arrows blot out the sun, the second time in the film, but this time, the Spartans can’t fight in the shade. Leonidas swears to make the “God King” bleed, and hurls his spear for Xerxes’ head. It strikes his cheek and rips out his fancy gold rings, but Leonidas and his troops are left peppered and speared to the ground.
Finally, Leonidas’ envoy leads the troops of Greece against the Persian troops, still out numbered, but now 3 to 1. Spurring them on with the foolhardy tale of Leonidas’ sacrifice, he marches into combat.
Ok, there was also lots of BS about politics interspersed between the battles…but that really isn’t important is it?
PS I wanted to say something about the title. Something to do with me bothering to do the Pledge but being too lazy to stand for it. XD